On Thursday, September 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Kartavya Path formerly known as Rajpath in India Gate, New Delhi as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project.

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of Tourism, Shri G Kishan Reddy, Union Ministers of State of Culture of India, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal and Smt Meenakshi Lekhi and Union Minister of State of Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Kaushal Kishore were also present on the occasion.

“Kingsway i.e. Rajpath, the symbol of slavery, has become a matter of history from today and has been erased forever. Today a new history has been created in the form of the ‘Kartavya Path’. I congratulate all the countrymen for their freedom from yet another identity of slavery, in this Amrit Kaal of independence,” says the Prime Minister while inaugurating the revamped stretch of three kilometers from India Gate to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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